This course provides an introduction to Artificial Intelligence research. In structure, this is a survey course: we will rarely spend more than three lectures or so on any given topic (even though many of these topics could easily support an entire semester's-or a career's-worth of work). The unfortunate side of this arrangement is that we will not cover anything in great depth (though you are encouraged to follow up on any topics of interest to you); the fortunate side of this arrangement is that, if you find that you don't care for some topic, all you have to do is wait a week or so until we move on to something else!

Text: S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Assignments and grading: 5 problem sets (70%), Final Exam (30%)

Prerequisites: an algorithms course